What are the handling characteristics of Kentucky Speedway?  "Last year we got really tight in the race. The truck wouldn't come off the corners without getting extremely tight. We were able to finish third in the race last year but the two trucks in front of us were better getting off the corner and that's where they got us. Kentucky is very bumpy so you need to get the truck to handle over the bumps too. Just like when we go to Memphis, we talk about the bumps. It's not a bad thing at all, it makes Kentucky different than some of the other tracks we race on and it gives all of us drivers a little added challenge through the weekend."

Will the new engine rules prevent someone from checking out on the field?  "It might help somewhat. When we come to these handling racetracks, and Kentucky is a handling track, it's the team that hits the setup that you're going to see up front. Last year Mike Skinner hit on it and he ran and hid from the rest of us. There have been some changes in the rules since last year - the tapered spacer plate and some aero changes and of course the tires are different too - so things might be totally different this year. Maybe a couple of teams will find the setup and get out to the front instead of just one."

The leader sometimes does break away but what kind of racing can we expect in the pack?  "A lot of people like to just focus on the race for the lead, and I don't blame them. I'd like to be up fighting for the lead and the win too and put on an exciting show for the fans. But Kentucky is one of those tracks where there's also some good racing in the pack. It's so wide that you can run two and three wide in the corners. But what we really need to pay attention to is what the air is doing with these trucks in traffic. You can get under someone and lose the air and you're going to go for a ride and probably take some people with you. It gets pretty hairy in the pack here and that's why I am hoping we're way out in front of it."

You had a dominant truck at Kentucky in 2001 and got taken out in an incident with a lapped truck. Does that still motivate you to finally get that win at Kentucky?  "That was my first race at Kentucky, and we really had a great truck that night. This is just my kind of racetrack, big and fast with a lot of speed. You have plenty of room to run and plenty of options as a driver. We hit on it that night and we were gone. Unfortunately we got tangled up in someone else's problem and it ruined our night. We have come back to Kentucky and run extremely well, but we've just never been able to get that win. I don't know that the track owes us one but it does tell you that nothing in this sport is a sure thing. We were as sure of a thing as you can be that night and we still ended up behind the wall early."

This Week's Truck: During Saturday night's Built Ford Tough 225, Ted will be driving chassis No. 15. Ted has raced this truck previously this season in Atlanta where he qualified fourth and finished seventh, Texas where he was running in the top-ten before engine troubles and in Michigan.  This truck has been successful for Ted and his HT Motorsports team this season and they look forward to the same this weekend in Kentucky.

Ted Musgrave's Kentucky Speedway career stats:  Ted has started seven NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series races at Kentucky Speedway and has scored six top-ten finishes, three of which have been in the top five. His best finish was second in 2003. His average start is 9.0 and his average finish is 8.0. He has led 81 laps at Kentucky, 79 of which were in 2001 - which resulted in his only DNF when he was taken out in a crash with a lapped truck with 34 laps remaining. He has completed 1,019 out of a possible 1,054 laps in competition (96.7%) and has been on the lead lap at the finish of the last five races.